STRATA Morphosis

Inspiration

Strata morphosis is based on the idea of change and layers that are gathered through the cycle of life. The start of life provides a new canvas that is literally painted on by life and the influence of our surroundings on us as life goes by. These varied influences have an effect on our looks, our personalities and our behavior patterns. At the youth phase of this cycle is when these influences have maximum appeal to a viewer, a fleeting period after which additional layers and influences start to layer up, Strata Morphosis is about a snap shot capturing that fleeting moment in time.These concepts of ageing, the cycle of life, influences on life and continuity were often discussed at home. The idea that everything, be it a tree, a person or a plate of copper ages and withers gathers moss or wrinkles, shrivel up and morph with time, relates to life and change.

I would often talk to my mother about it and hear her view points on the subject and what she had then picked up from her parents. The discussion represented cycle and continuity to me.When my parents shifted to Kochi I had hoped I would have the time to paint there, which was what my mum had hoped. She would say she wanted the house full of my work and to watch me paint which was not to be as all those years she ended up fighting cancer, with all my visits to kochi spent taking her back and forth from hospitals till she passed away last year. I saw her transform from a very confident, brilliant, vivacious and beautiful women who had stood first in the university into this old lady who now had no desire to live let alone know what was going on around her. I wanted to capture her life on canvas as that moment that she would have cherished most.Encapsulating a slice of life at a particular time correlating this youth phase to various other elements, which also go through the same aging process, is what I have tried to do in these abstracts.December 2015; I was back in Kochi on my mother’s first death anniversary and I finally did mange to do precisely what she had wanted and that is when I conceptualised and started work on Strata Morphosis.I like to challenge myself and try to work on similar themes but change the way I handle a theme moving from figurative to abstracts to geometrics. The expression series is based on contradictory yet complimentary emotions dealing with opposites with paintings in pairs such as joy and sorrow, agony and ecstasy etc. Strata morphosis deals with capturing a moment in the cycle of life, between life and death.

Strata Morphosis Series is a Set Of 6 Paintings Medium: Acrylic on CanvasUnframed Ready to HangNo Prints - No Copies Only Originals.

Copper Patina - Size: 30in by 40in​Creates deals with layers of various hues created by the oxidization of copper over time bringing what would once have started out as a plain sheet of copper into a complex interplay of shapes and colours.

Wave light - Size: 30in by 40in Captures a section of a crashing wave. The layers and ripples along with sunlight create a very textured surface displaying the interplay of light and water.​

Tree light - Size: 30in by 40inThis deals with the effect of light and the interaction of the sky with the layer formed by the leaves and branches of a tree line when viewed from below

Tree Bark - Size: 36in by 48inThis painting deals with the brilliant pastel hues formed on the tree surface with time

Iron Rust - Size: 36in by 48inA sheet of grey is transformed into a rusty textured surface. The use of highlight areas in yellow creates the illusion of spots of light on the otherwise dulled out surface.